Distribution of ability in U.S., 22 Doré, 124 Douglass, Frederick, 223 Dreams, 64 Drummond, 82, 84 Dwight's dictum, 15 Edison, 169, 304 Elements of worth in individual, 9 Eliot, Geo., 178, 196, 222 Emerson, 13, 31, 34, 42, 98, 103, 122, 150, 164 Enthusiasm, 168 of friendship, 165 Epictetus, 174 Evolution, 82 External world a teacher, 37 Faraday, 248 Fiske, 94 Friendship, 163 secret of eminence, 173 refining, 178 Froude, 172 Garibaldi, 171, 184 Gladstone, 43, 69 Göethe, 151 Grant, 184 Greeley, 33 Guttenberg printing press, 82 Hamilton, 133, 201 Handel, 153 Harrison, Frederic, 234, 250, 314 Hawthorne, 107 Health, 75 Helps, Arthur, 253 Heredity, 130 Herod, 189 Heroes raised up to teach men, 58, 59 Hoe, printing press, 82 Holland, J.G., 23 Holmes, O.W., 13 Homer, 60, 312 Hugo, 193 Huss, 145, 150 Huxley, 76 Ideals, teachers, 49 Ignorance, 19, 31 Imagination, 141 defined, 147 sustains men, 149 place in science and invention, 157 mechanics, 152 helps character, 156 abuse of, 157 lifts above misfortune, 159 reveals God, 160 Integrity, 27 Iron, value of raw and manufactured, 20 Jacob's vision, 70, 166 Jesus, 14, 29, 30, 31, 40, 51, 59, 115, 118, 183, 189, 210, 215, 271, 309, 318, 319 John, 14 Johnson, 47, 166 Jones, Sir Wm., 304 Judas Iscariot, 135 Keats, 106 King, Starr, 312 Knowledge, 20 Kossuth, 184 Lamartine, 34 Lamb, 47, 166, 244 Lecky, 45 Lee, inventor of loom, 47 Lincoln, 34, 41, 169, 219, 284, 312 Livingstone, 58, 78, 236, 241 Living with men, 257 the largest subject, 259 training necessary, 262 the most important act, 264 the most difficult, 266 aim and end of life, 274 test of manhood, 275 Locke, 122 Lodge's study of distribution of ability, 22 Longfellow, 129, 252 Lowell, 31, 98, 142, 312 Lubbock's inquiry of Indian chief, 16, 175 Luther, 40, 41, 58, 78, 100, 171 Macaulay, 132, 262 Making the most of one's self, 299 self-care and self-love, 301 debt of strength to weakness, 305 examples from history, 309 examples from great men, 309 duty of the nation, 316 teaching of Christ, 318 Man a double creature, 85 Mann, Horace, 17 Massachusetts, education, 22 McCosh, 84 Michael Angelo, 118, 149, 214 Mill, John Stuart, 12, 25 Millais, Martyr, 58 Millet's Angelus, 20 Milton, 34, 56, 79, 114, 129, 153, 167, 174, 198, 234, 312 Mind and the duty of right thinking, 97 its wonderfulness, 101 its fruitfulness, 103 determines character, 114 Misfits in life, 13 Mivart, 116 Monotony, a teacher, 43 Moral uses of the memory, 121 basis of civilization, 125 power, 131 examples, Macaulay, Niebuhr, etc., 131 influenced by conscience, 201 Napoleon, 17, 142, 153, 184 Newness as a teacher, 42 Newton, 84, 237, 238 Nestor, 307 Niebuhr's memory, 131 Nilsson, 154 Northampton, noted men, 23 Obedience to law, 27 Oken, 151 Paganini, 14, 262 Pasteur, 312 Paul, 12, 41, 234, 235, 282